"TIF 101"

IF YOU FOUND THIS VIDEO VALUABLE PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO OUR WORK - Purchase a copy of our book "Chicago Is Not Broke. Funding the City We Deserve" - which contains an excellent section on TIFs - at http://tinyurl.com/Order-Broke-Book. This is a 22 minute introduction to Tax Increment Financing (TIF) as the program has evolved in Chicago. It features Professor Rachel Weber of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Cook County Clerk David Orr. It is a project of the TIF Illumination Project (http://www.tifreports.com) and was produced and written by lead organizer Tom Tresser. You can reach us at [email protected]. The short URL for this video = http://tinyurl.com/TIF-101-final. You can watch our second video, "TIF Off the Rails" at http://tinyurl.com/TIFs-Off-the-Rails (17:45 minutes). You can "Like" us @ https://www.facebook.com/TIFIlluminationProject. You can follow us @https://twitter.com/tifreport. This video is protected under a Creative Commons license - Attribution-Non-Commercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0). You are free to: (1) Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format,and (2) Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. Under the following terms: (1) Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use, and (2) Non-Commercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.